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Date:      Sat, 9 Oct 1999 07:42:29 +0200
From:      Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se>
To:        whitehat@home.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: total lag
Message-ID:  <19991009074229.A11516@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <37FED0DC.2A63CF6D@home.com>
References:  <37FED0DC.2A63CF6D@home.com>

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On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 10:21:32PM -0700, whitehat@home.com wrote:
> Now I have yet another obstacle.  For some reason, KDE is INSANELY slow,
> and so does every other WM i've tried.  It takes 3 min for netscape to
> load, and the machine is grinding like crazy...its working way to hard. 
> Will it help if I increase my Swap size? right now its 98 MB, and my RAM
> is 48MB (so the swap file is rougly two times my RAM, as recommended). 
> Or, mabye increase my root partition (which is currently set at 30MB). 
> Or, mabye its the fact that I didnt
> make a /proc partition...here is my current system setup (might help
> you)
> 

If you create a /usr/tmp and make /tmp a symlink to /usr/tmp, you'll not
fill / with temporary files.

> Filesystem      1K-blocks       Used    Avail   Capacity        Mount
> 
> /dev/wd0s2a     29751           22932   4439    84%             /
> /dev/wd0s2e     595383          286406  261317  52%             /usr
> procfs          4               4       0       100%            /proc
> 
> Mabye I should create a /proc partition..for some reason FreeBSD
> automaticly made that "procfs" entry, perhaps thats whats slowing my
> whole system down.  Any ideas?

No you shouldn't create a /proc partition. But maybe you should have
created a /var partition!!
> 
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